Little Cultural Gifts from Around the World 2024

In 2024 the IPA in Culture Committee will give you again each month a little gift from various areas of culture, something that may intrigue, amuse, or touch you, something to discover, explore, remember, linger on or simply enjoy. You may also find our 2023 little gifts, little gifts of 2021,  2021 year of short films  and our 2022 musical gifts ).

With best wishes from the IPA in Culture Committee 
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau (Chair)
December: Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot (GER) Gold Medal | Pairs Free Skating | PyeongChang 2018
September: Milva - bella ciao (Italy)
July: Maria Bethânia - Reconvexo (Brazil)
April: Sara Tavares - Balancê, live in Lisboa, 2007 (Portugal)
November: Latency Canons by Ray Lustig (USA)
August: David Hockney: A collection of 43 paintings (UK)
June: Wade | Indian Animated Short Film
March: AMA - a short film by Julie Gautier (France)
January: Master KG & Nomcebo – ‘Jerusalema’ – Idols SA (South Africa)
October: Derek Walcott (1930 - 2017) St Lucia
Love After Love
The time will come when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself,
to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
in: Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

 

May: Aboriginal Artist Gloria Petyarre (Australia)
February: Tsumiki no Ie - The House of Small Cubes (Japan)